March 5, 2010
*Update 1 [scroll down]
**Update 2
***Update 3
According to Pentagon Police Chief Richard Keevil - at 6:40pm yesterday (4th), a man calmly approached 2 Pentagon Force Protection Agency officers at the Pentagon Metro stop. The officers asked to see his pass. The man, described as having “no emotion on his face”, reached into his pocket, removed a weapon and without saying a word shot both officers. Officers returned fire “many shots”, wounding the suspect.
The suspect’s injury described as “pretty critical” and the officers’ as “grazing” with the “injury to the suspect is a lot more severe”. No one else was injured.
No locations given for the injuries but it sounds like each sustained only one GSW. All three being transported to George Washingtion Hospital.
No name or description of the suspect given but they “have an ID” and “multiple addresses” and are “still running down leads”.
Sounds curious.
If it were a regular man acting on his own, why would there be multiple addresses? And why would there be a need to run down leads if the suspect has an ID and multiple addresses to investigate?
An insane person might have multiple addresses but one would think Pentagon police officers would have noticed something in his behavior.
A disgruntled regular user of the Metro would have made his complaints known.
So who would walk up calmly and without a word attempt to assassinate two anonymous police officers? And out of all the stops, why outside the Pentagon?
Is it SOP for the Pentagon PD, Arlington County PD, Secret Service and FBI to be involved the investigation?
Chief Richard Keevil, Pentagon PD
Wonder what the not appropriate question was?
The Metro will function as normal on Friday except no stops at the Pentagon station.
*Suspect: 36 y/o John Patrick Bedell from California
Died from GSW(s), location(s) not specified. Body arrived at the medical examiner’s office shortly after midnight.
First time there was a shooting outside the Pentagon.
Question of whether someone else was involved and whether he harbored a resentment toward the military.*
**Yahoo AP reporting possible motive revealed from online postings by JPatrickBedell who was:
determined to see that justice is served” in the death of Marine Col. James Sabow, who was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover up. [And that] the Sabow case was “a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.
The same posting railed against the government’s enforcement of marijuana laws and included links to the author’s 2006 court case in Orange County, Calif., for cultivating marijuana and resisting a police officer. Court records available online show the date of birth on the case mentioned by the user JPatrickBedell matches that of the John Patrick Bedell suspected in the shooting.
How long before he is connected to the birthers?**
***Mr Bidell had a longstanding history of Bipolar Disorder, poorly controlled.
One wonders what would have happened had they left him alone to grow his marijuana. Especially since BD is an indication for medical marijuana and he ended up getting a medical card.
Bedell parked his truck in a nearby shopping mall. He was well-dressed in a jacket, dress shirt and pants. He began shooting when he was within 5′ of one officer. Evidently Bedell then fled because MSNBC reports 3 officers gave chase. Bedell was shot in the head and arm and later died. Unknown how many shots were fired or where the police officers were shot.
Of course barrymedia is connecting Bedell with the Nazi and the man who flew his plane into the building. They don’t seem to realize that BP is a medical illness and that Bedell’s motivation will never truly be known. He didn’t say a word and as far as has been made public, he did not leave a note. Lumping Bedell in with the others is not only irresponsible it’s ignorant.***
